Mobile Health Application for Family and Behavioral Health Provider Communication

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine feasibility, tolerability, utilization, and
effectiveness of using the SupportTeam mobile application in the context of Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for veterans with PTSD.

Description

Purpose: we will examine feasibility, tolerability, utilization, and effectiveness of using
the SupportTeam mobile application in the context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for
veterans with PTSD.

Participants: (N=100) 50 veterans who have served in the military since October 2001 and
have PTSD with anger problems; and 50 collateral family members/close friends above the age
of 18.

Procedures (methods): All Veterans with PTSD will receive a 12 session standard CBT for
anger. Veterans in the intervention group will additionally receive instructions for using
SupportTeam with a family member or friend that will provide data for the CBT clinician.
Veterans in the control group will receive the CBT sessions, but will not receive the
SupportTeam mobile application.

Informal caregivers-that is, close family and friends providing unpaid emotional or instrumental care-of patients admitted to ICUs are at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder. As a first step toward...

Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions

Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute

A class of traumatic stress disorders that is characterized by the significant dissociative states seen immediately after overwhelming trauma. By definition it cannot last longer than 1 month, if it persists, a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC) is more appropriate.

Stress Disorders, Post-traumatic

A class of traumatic stress disorders with symptoms that last more than one month. There are various forms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on the time of onset and the duration of these stress symptoms. In the acute form, the duration of the symptoms is between 1 to 3 months. In the chronic form, symptoms last more than 3 months. With delayed onset, symptoms develop more than 6 months after the traumatic event.

Mobile Applications

Computer programs or software installed on mobile electronic devices which support a wide range of functions and uses which include television, telephone, video, music, word processing, and Internet service.

Osteonecrosis

Death of a bone or part of a bone, either atraumatic or posttraumatic.

Oxidative Stress

A disturbance in the prooxidant-antioxidant balance in favor of the former, leading to potential damage. Indicators of oxidative stress include damaged DNA bases, protein oxidation products, and lipid peroxidation products (Sies, Oxidative Stress, 1991, pxv-xvi).

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